if any of you haven’t seen this yet, the NY Times published an article about R! for some strange reason, it didn’t make the “most emailed” feed. go figure. Data Analysts Captured By R’s Power the first thing i thought when i saw it was, way to go R! i had never heard of R [...]
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lattice graphics in R
if you’ve decided to switch over to doing stats in R because the graphs R generates look so nice, you’ve probably experienced frustration with the lattice graphics package. it is highly customizable, which also means it is crazy complicated. and, the documentation doesn’t seem to be written for non-expert users. while searching for documentation on [...]
visualization
i’ve wanted to create some visualizations of event log data from my ctools project for quite a while now, but every time i thought about getting started, the idea of learning a new programming language or toolkit seemed like too much work for too little payoff. but when i decided to scale back my aspirations [...]
i have a plan!
back in december, i posted about how i was looking for some software to help me create a time-based plan for the next year or so of my life. what i really wanted was a freeware tool that would allow me to make a gantt chart that’s not too ugly to look at, without getting [...]
my foray into ruby on rails
today i started working on a programming project. i’m using Ruby on Rails to create a web application for my dissertation. i had this bright idea that it would make data collection and analysis much easier if my participants did the document and folder labeling and organization online rather than using hard copies. also, i [...]
